Zouhair Talbi - Ranking the US Marathoner's Prospects

HobbleCreek24 · 2025-05-15T16:28:13-04:00

Talbi ran in the USA 25k Champs. He has US Citizenship now and will be eligible to compete for the Olympic team in LA. Where does he rank in the pecking order of US marathon prospects competing for the slot in LA? Mantz and Young will be defending the title. Names that could be floated include Simbassa, Richtman, Maier, Hicks, Clinger, Albertson, Ford, etc. His strongest accolades, 2:06:39 in Houston 2024, 2:07:17 in China, 5th place in the Boston Marathon in 2023. Some question marks. He finished 35th in Paris with 2:11:51. In a weaker Boston Marathon field in 2024 he finished 10th with 2:10:45. He didn't run a spring marathon in 2025, instead electing for the 25k champs, where he finished 4th and 2.5 minutes behind the eventual winner.

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1 year ago 05/22/2025 2:41pm EDT

re: They Need To Earn It

They Need To Earn It wrote:
As a military veteran I think it would be nice if these guys chose to serve this country to protect it not to run for it. I was not at his level but ran the following times:
800m: 1:48
1500m: 3:45
Mile: 4:01
5,000m: 13:56
10,000m: 28:57
I ran for my services sports program but chose to move on to deploy when I could have kept training. Today I am disabled for it but feel I earned my veteran status. A hate to say it but a number of the WCAPS guys view it as a game a sports team they have not known guys that have lost their lives in uniform or attended funerals and award ceremonies for friends that have died. I lost a number of friends in training for deployment alone, let alone while deployed. I just hope they understand that when they wear a track singlet that says Army on it.

Paul Chelimo has a silver medal. Maybe you should've spent more time training to run faster and less time being jealous about runners who are faster than you

1 year ago 05/22/2025 2:44pm EDT

re: LetsRun.com

Wooo good luck to this guy!

I also moved to Oklahoma to run in college and then had a baby with a pretty blond lady. Something about that state you know?

American Dream!!!

1 year ago 05/22/2025 4:09pm EDT

re: LetsRun.com

LetsRun.com wrote:
Jonathan Gault has a story on Talbi up now:
Link:www.letsrun.com/news/2025/05/206-marat...

I'm really curious to see the set of fall marathons. I think it'll give us an idea of who is in what shape. There are a lot of question mark guys who I think we can see in the fall. Like, Zouhair, Clinger, Biya, all didn't run spring marathons. Maier ran a smaller marathon. Klecker and Bor ran shorter races, I don't know where they see themselves as far as the transition. But this fall when we a number of these guys run in major marathons and compete with each other we'll start to have an idea of what the pecking order looks like.

1 year ago 05/22/2025 4:17pm EDT

re: yeah sure you did

yeah sure you did wrote:
Dennis Reynolds the real one wrote:
Thank you for your service. Anyone who joins the military and is honorably discharged earned their veteran status, please don't put any caveats on it beyond that.
100% this
The fact that he felt the need to put a caveat on it means he didn't do sh*t
"disabled" but doesn't explain what that means. Someone can be 10% disabled for having sciatica and can call themselves "disabled"

90% Service Related:

Military related surgeries:

1.) Heart: In 2014 left side of my heart shut down, emergency surgery

2.) Heart: In 2015 Another operation

3.) Heart: In 2017 Another Operation

4.) Heart: In 2020 Another Operation

5.) Back 6 Screws 2 Cages Rods (Military Related from getting crushed)

6.) Shoulder Replacement Related to the above

7.) Ear Surgery to fix my left ear due to tinnitus and severe hearing loss due to a MK46 going off 6 inches from my head.

Have Neck Surgery next year Related to the above.

Cauda Aquina had no feeling in my lower extremities let me tell you it's a great feeling when you are in the middle of nowhere a go to the bathroom all over yourself because you can't feel it except an extreme amount of pain.

Panic and PTSD I can no longer be in places with large crowds due to fear. Real PTSD is not just hearing a loud noise and being back in Vietnam, real PTSD is kissing your family goodbye because you think your already gone.

1 year ago 05/22/2025 4:22pm EDT

re: yeah sure you did

yeah sure you did wrote:
They Need To Earn It wrote:
As a military veteran I think it would be nice if these guys chose to serve this country to protect it not to run for it. I was not at his level but ran the following times:
800m: 1:48
1500m: 3:45
Mile: 4:01
5,000m: 13:56
10,000m: 28:57
I ran for my services sports program but chose to move on to deploy when I could have kept training. Today I am disabled for it but feel I earned my veteran status. A hate to say it but a number of the WCAPS guys view it as a game a sports team they have not known guys that have lost their lives in uniform or attended funerals and award ceremonies for friends that have died. I lost a number of friends in training for deployment alone, let alone while deployed. I just hope they understand that when they wear a track singlet that says Army on it.
Paul Chelimo has a silver medal. Maybe you should've spent more time training to run faster and less time being jealous about runners who are faster than you

I can carless about running fast I am 43 now. I got all I could out of it and could not run any faster than I did, because it wasn't a full-time thing anymore. I stopped running because I had other goals besides running. I learned at about 25 years of age that running is a very minor piece of our lives and those that can't let go of the success they had as a runner will never truly find it anywhere else. You have to be willing to find something new that provides the same type of excitement and goal.

1 year ago 05/22/2025 8:26pm EDT

re: They Need To Earn It

They Need To Earn It wrote:
As a military veteran I think it would be nice if these guys chose to serve this country to protect it not to run for it. I was not at his level but ran the following times:
800m: 1:48
1500m: 3:45
Mile: 4:01
5,000m: 13:56
10,000m: 28:57
I ran for my services sports program but chose to move on to deploy when I could have kept training. Today I am disabled for it but feel I earned my veteran status. A hate to say it but a number of the WCAPS guys view it as a game a sports team they have not known guys that have lost their lives in uniform or attended funerals and award ceremonies for friends that have died. I lost a number of friends in training for deployment alone, let alone while deployed. I just hope they understand that when they wear a track singlet that says Army on it.

Such an odd thng to consider when you don't even know the guy. Do you go to military graduations and just start telling random graduates that you hope they understand what it means to wear the uniform?

1 year ago 05/22/2025 9:15pm EDT

re: They Need To Earn It

They Need To Earn It wrote:
yeah sure you did wrote:
100% this
The fact that he felt the need to put a caveat on it means he didn't do sh*t
"disabled" but doesn't explain what that means. Someone can be 10% disabled for having sciatica and can call themselves "disabled"
90% Service Related:
Military related surgeries:
1.) Heart: In 2014 left side of my heart shut down, emergency surgery
2.) Heart: In 2015 Another operation
3.) Heart: In 2017 Another Operation
4.) Heart: In 2020 Another Operation
5.) Back 6 Screws 2 Cages Rods (Military Related from getting crushed)
6.) Shoulder Replacement Related to the above
7.) Ear Surgery to fix my left ear due to tinnitus and severe hearing loss due to a MK46 going off 6 inches from my head.
Have Neck Surgery next year Related to the above.
Cauda Aquina had no feeling in my lower extremities let me tell you it's a great feeling when you are in the middle of nowhere a go to the bathroom all over yourself because you can't feel it except an extreme amount of pain.
Panic and PTSD I can no longer be in places with large crowds due to fear. Real PTSD is not just hearing a loud noise and being back in Vietnam, real PTSD is kissing your family goodbye because you think your already gone.

Wow you’re so much better than Paul Chelimo you win at life

1 year ago 05/22/2025 9:15pm EDT

re: They Need To Earn It

They Need To Earn It wrote:
yeah sure you did wrote:
Paul Chelimo has a silver medal. Maybe you should've spent more time training to run faster and less time being jealous about runners who are faster than you
I can carless about running fast I am 43 now. I got all I could out of it and could not run any faster than I did, because it wasn't a full-time thing anymore. I stopped running because I had other goals besides running. I learned at about 25 years of age that running is a very minor piece of our lives and those that can't let go of the success they had as a runner will never truly find it anywhere else. You have to be willing to find something new that provides the same type of excitement and goal.

Sounds like you care an awful lot about running

1 year ago 05/22/2025 10:59pm EDT

re: HobbleCreek24

Ran with him once. Friendly guy

1 year ago 05/23/2025 5:06am EDT

re: They Need To Earn It

They Need To Earn It wrote:
MK46 going off 6 inches from my head.

Just interested what you are referring to as there are multiple Mark 46

en.wikipedia.org

Mark 46

The designation Mark 46 can refer to: Mark 46 machine gun, lighter weight version of the M249 machine gun Mark 46 nuclear bomb, also B46 Mark 46 torpedo Mark 46 30 mm chain gun

Open link

I'm guessing the last one on that list

1 year ago 05/23/2025 5:39am EDT

re: USA USA

Wesley Kiptoo will gain his US citizenship later this year

1 year ago 05/23/2025 6:56am EDT

re: They Need To Earn It

They Need To Earn It wrote:
yeah sure you did wrote:
Paul Chelimo has a silver medal. Maybe you should've spent more time training to run faster and less time being jealous about runners who are faster than you
I can carless about running fast I am 43 now. I got all I could out of it and could not run any faster than I did, because it wasn't a full-time thing anymore. I stopped running because I had other goals besides running. I learned at about 25 years of age that running is a very minor piece of our lives and those that can't let go of the success they had as a runner will never truly find it anywhere else. You have to be willing to find something new that provides the same type of excitement and goal.

My friend was a runner and an army artillery officer who has a Purple Heart and medals for valor. He also died by suicide due to PTSD.

Is he better than Paul Chelimo? No.

Would I rather that he had a military experience like Paul Chelimo’s so that he was still alive? Yes.

1 year ago 05/23/2025 7:55am EDT

re: yeah sure you did

Also Talbots joined the Army Reserves. NOT WCAP and would have to deploy whenever the Army orders him to, so WTF are we even talking about?

1 year ago 05/23/2025 7:55am EDT

re: Wow sounds real

Wow sounds real wrote:
Also Talbots joined the Army Reserves. NOT WCAP and would have to deploy whenever the Army orders him to, so WTF are we even talking about?

*Talbi

autocorrect

1 year ago 05/23/2025 12:48pm EDT

re: They Need To Earn It

They Need To Earn It wrote:
yeah sure you did wrote:
Paul Chelimo has a silver medal. Maybe you should've spent more time training to run faster and less time being jealous about runners who are faster than you
I can carless about running fast I am 43 now. I got all I could out of it and could not run any faster than I did, because it wasn't a full-time thing anymore. I stopped running because I had other goals besides running. I learned at about 25 years of age that running is a very minor piece of our lives and those that can't let go of the success they had as a runner will never truly find it anywhere else. You have to be willing to find something new that provides the same type of excitement and goal.

not responding anymore?

1 year ago 05/23/2025 12:49pm EDT

re: HobbleCreek24

Good to see an ocu grad running well

1 year ago 05/23/2025 2:14pm EDT

re: the430miler

the430miler wrote:
Good to see an ocu grad running well

Thunder up

1 year ago 05/23/2025 3:15pm EDT

re: yeah sure you did

yeah sure you did wrote:
They Need To Earn It wrote:
I can carless about running fast I am 43 now. I got all I could out of it and could not run any faster than I did, because it wasn't a full-time thing anymore. I stopped running because I had other goals besides running. I learned at about 25 years of age that running is a very minor piece of our lives and those that can't let go of the success they had as a runner will never truly find it anywhere else. You have to be willing to find something new that provides the same type of excitement and goal.
not responding anymore?

I just don't care about your opinion, said my peace I am good!

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